Confusing

So, we was handed over our new brief which will last us til the end of term, and although I understood everything about it i am soo confused.
So what I can work out is we have to look at designs/ ways of technology & process' and either create a new way or enhance it. (I may end up posting again in a few days and begin talking about something completely different but til then thats what I i think its all about)

So i don't really know why but after watching the presentation David Barnet gave us i seem to keep thinking about CMYK and glowing/shiny colours. Seeing as thats all i can seem to think about at the moment I'm going to just get on with some random research and look at literally anything and everything.

Signwriting

A student who graduated last year came in to host a workshop on her practice of signwriting. The process is very similar to calligraphy, but you use different materials and equipment.

What you need:
Mahl stick
Long haired brush
Paint
White Spirit
2x small pot (1 for ink & 1 for white spirit)
And maybe a sheet with simple strokes for beginning :)


This was the best video on Youtube which i could find which shows you the technique which we learnt, however the man is using his arm as his Mahl Stick. The Mahl stick is a stick with a rubber ball end which you hold to steady your hand while creating your hand rendered type.





On Friday, we were to practice the technique and then once we mastered it we were set a brief. Our brief for the day was to then sign write a word which meant 'beautiful' when said. I chose the word J'adore and got to work. I really enjoyed the workshop and i'm finding myself becoming much more attracted to typography and the different ways that it can be created.

2 days worth..

So i began my video on after effects the other day, and I'm quite happy with my few second outcome HOWEVER. I tired to generate the effect of how the camera zooms out and rotates which you will understand from my storyboard and my video which i will post up shortly. I generated my rotating effect by simply pin pointing the place i wanted it to move, rotate and shrink but i have since then been told how to master the camera mode which i shall now try and create the same effect but using the camera.

Here is my first attempt and outcome on After effects (hopefully you will understand what i am trying to achieve with the camera)

The audio runs for 20 seconds however my work ends in like a few seconds so just stop the video :) bit of a rendering error i made.

Many Thanks Nigel.

After todays briefing on our new project 'New Languages' Nigel had some spare L.p's (if thats correct), and after decided to throw one on the floor and smashing it to show us how fragile they were he then offered the remainder of the collection to the class and i picked up one which features songs from Jimmy Shand and his band, which is quite weird because i thought no one would know who the band was if Nigel was just thowing them out, HOWEVER my dad knows them :) Someday i hope to play this fine disk.

PERIOD.

Helvetica wins the race.  I have been working on a storyboard for my piece, trying to incorporate some of the things i've seen and liked from other videos however seeing as After Effects is very new to me I have already begun my 'Teach yourself' part a little earlier than usual. I have figured out a few techniques and i have now become quite used to the timeline panel and setting the timer, hopefully it will all go well.

Here are some of the storyboard frames from my book which i will soon convert into photoshop/ illustrator to make it more realistic.

Selected audio

So I did alot of research on Youtube, and I found it hard to pin point a specific person or way to find something inspiring. So instead of trying to remember things which i found interesting in the past, i decided to listen to a few of the TED talks and I came across a few potential audio clips but none of them really grabbed my attention too much. So i decided to head back to Youtube and search single words and see what i came up with and here are my chosen clips. One of the clips i have chosen i remembered of chance while searching and thats from a Documentary which i then researched on Youtube to find.

1. John.F Kennedy 0:00 - 0:08                                                               2. Wim Crouwel 0:00 - 0:18

3. Helvetica Documentary ( Micheal Beirut) 2:31 - 2:54

Motion Graphics

INSPIRED

We have been asked to select 3 audio clips and narrow them down to 10-20second clip, which we will then break down the audio to then create a storyboard of kinetic type, motion graphics sequence where typography is the main "performer."

The audio clip can be sourced from any where ranging from the internet interviews, TED talks, documentaries or even your own personal source. The piece should be something that you find inspiring.

Here are some examples of type in motion that I found very interesting...







With this video i like how the text budges the other text out of the way.

I think if my audio clips has spaces of silence or a pause I would like to add in the effect of the line continuing on from a letter and maybe form a shape or even if it just leads on to another piece of text.